Delirium wrote:
Well, in principle, *all* our articles should be pretty decent, but we have nearly a million of them in en: now, so that takes some time. Even if you take only all high-profile articles, there's at least a few thousand of them, so the fact that someone can find 2 of those thousands that aren't very good at one particular moment in time isn't particularly convincing.
*nod* Ok, I see your point. What I wonder is if we could identify a particular class of articles and discover that they tend to be bad in a particular way and then do something about it.
In the case in hand, we have "Bill Gates" and "Jane Fonda" -- they are similar in that they are both living famous Americans who are controversial. The problems with the articles are similar in that the problem isn't so much bias or lack of factual accuracy, as it is bad writing.
Are the biographies of other living famous Americans who are controversial similarly godawful?
Here's a test: Bill Clinton, Michael Moore, Sean Penn, Ann Coulter
I wonder how those are, and I'll be studying them on the plane home tomorrow....
/me goes to download and save.
--Jimbo